Based on Deleuzian interpretation of Hume's empiricism, this article seeks to understand the development of Deleuze's first synthesis of time, the synthesis of habit, from the constitution of a subject who contemplates and contracts sensitive perceptions, surpassing the data from de action of principles that are external to him. The contraction of the past and the expectations regarding the future are two dimensions of this lived present. Through the contraction by the habit, repetition produces a difference in the spirit and then produces us as subjects. On the passive synthesis of habit will unfold the active synthesis of memory and reflection. From analysis of the work of Proust, Deleuze develops, then, the theme of this meeting with the outside as production in the subject of an ability to explain the meaning of what is presented as a sign, which means overcoming the subjectivist and objectivist illusions and search for meaning in an internalized difference that is the very being itself of the past. It follows go beyond the empirical dimension of time and find a new synthesis of time, the transcendental synthesis of memory, in which the past does not succeed the present, but coexists with it.